Jianglong Shipbuilding has cut the first steel for a new patrol vessel slated for the Yangtze River Shipping Public Security Bureau. The steel-aluminium vessel will have ..
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Bulker Earnings Surge on China Infrastructure Investment
By Firat Kayakiran (Bloomberg) –Ships that transport coal and iron ore to China are seeing a surge in earnings as the nation’s demand for commodities rises, despite concerns about a resurgence in cases of Covid-19 in many parts of the world. Rates for Capesize ships, the largest among dry bulk...
Europêche lodges anti-dumping complaint against Chinese tuna exports
Europêche, the organisation formed of EU fishing industry stakeholders, has presented a request to the European Commission for the initiation of an anti-dumping ..
Mitsui OSK Lines, Total christen world’s largest LNG bunker vessel
Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) and Total have officially named the world’s largest LNG bunkering vessel. Owned by MOL wholly owned subsidiary Emerald Green Maritime, Gas ..
Taiwanese fishing boat, Japan Coast Guard vessel collide in East China Sea
A Taiwanese fishing boat and a patrol vessel of the Japan Coast Guard collided in waters off the disputed Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea on Sunday, ..
Hub-Spoke Model Carrier Investment Not Working for Profitability
The pandemic has rattled global supply chains due to demand shocks caused by the lockdown. Its impact accelerated the impetus for companies who were in the midst of change to relocate their manufacturing sites and to switch modes from a just-in-time model (lean inventory) to a just-in-case model (higher inventory). For companies who were not already embarking on a transition, the crisis has caught many flat-footed because the rate of change in the external environment is moving faster than the...
https://mfame.guru/hub-spoke-model-carrier-investment-not-working-for-profitability/
Chinese Navy Crafts Unmanned Sea Hunter Knock-off
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A candid photograph posted on Chinese social media sheds light on a Chinese project to develop an unmanned ship similar to the U.S. Navy’s Sea Hunter. The trimaran is remarkably similar to the Sea Hunter in almost every respect.
Although the designation of the project is unknown, based on imagery analysis, the builder and dimensions have been established.
The uncrewed Sea Hunter has been designed under the Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel (ACTUV) program. The uncrewed surface...
https://news.usni.org/2020/09/25/chinese-navy-crafts-unmanned-sea-hunter-knock-off
Another new China-Europe multimodal sea-rail service launches next month
Next month Russian Railways subsidiary JSC and Belintertrans-Germany (BIT-Germany) launch a multimodal sea-rail service from Altynkol on the Chinese border, via Kaliningrad, to Hamburg.
Pilot shipments this month and last saw a transit time from Chongqing to Hamburg of 12-14 days. The initiative has already welcomed confirmations from DHL, and from ITLG for goods from Xi’an.
The new service will see two trains a day leave for Hamburg, with technology synchronising them …
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https://theloadstar.com/another-new-china-europe-multimodal-sea-rail-service-launches-next-month/
COLUMN | Sale of the century: Tidewater and Bourbon shrink, Hermitage auctioned? – Part one [Offshore Accounts]
King Julien, the Lemur leader in the cartoon franchise Madagascar, would be delighted. The ring-tailed primate famously liked to “move it, move it” (here). At last, ..
Expert Panel Tells Lawmakers U.S. Needs to Do More to Counter Chinese Pacific Expansion
The launch of the Type 75 big-deck amphib in Shanghai on Sept. 25, 2019. PLAN Photo
Palau’s recent offer to permit the United States to build bases and airfields could provide a model for Washington to use to counter China’s territorial claims in the Pacific, a senior security expert told the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday.
“Washington should seek new allies and partners,” Elbridge Colby, co-founder of the Marathon Initiative, told the HASC. “Focus on states with shared threat...